Kritika Volume 11 No.2

From the Editors

Russian History after the “Visual Turn” . . . 217
Articles

TIMOTHY K. BLAUVELT
Military-Civil Administration and Islam in the North Caucasus, 1858–83 . . . 221

ERIK VAN REE
The Stalinist Self: The Case of Ioseb Jughashvili (1898–1907) . . . 257

BRIGID O’KEEFFE
“Backward Gypsies,” Soviet Citizens: The All-Russian Gypsy Union, 1925–28 . . . 283
Review Forum: New Perspectives on Anna Akhmatova

MICHAEL WACHTEL
Cultural Mythologies of the Silver Age . . . 313

GALINA S. RYLKOVA
Saint or Monster? Anna Akhmatova in the 21st Century . . . 325
Review Essays

MALTE ROLF
Importing the “Spatial Turn” to Russia: Recent Studies on the Spatialization of Russian History . . . 359

JEFF SAHADEO
Visions of Empire: Russia’s Place in an Imperial World . . . 381
Reviews

MAUREEN PERRIE
Viacheslav Nikolaevich Kozliakov, Mikhail Fedorovich; Kozliakov, Marina Mnishek; Kozliakov, Vasilii Shuiskii . . . 411

RAPHAEL UTZ
S. N. Iskiul´, Vneshniaia politika Rossii i germanskie gosudarstva (1801–1812) (Russia’s Foreign Policy and the German States [1801–12]) . . . 423

ROBERT PRZYGRODZKI
Anna A. Komzolova, Politika samoderzhaviia v Severo-Zapadnom krae v epokhu Velikikh reform (The Politics of Autocracy in the Northwest Region during the Great Reform Era); Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 . . . 429

THOMAS P. BERNSTEIN
S. A. Smith, Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History . . . 439

AUSTIN JERSILD
Nina Bystrova, SSSR i formirovanie voenno-blokovogo protivostoianiia v Evrope (1945–1955 gg.) (The USSR and the Formation of Military-Bloc Confrontation in Europe [1945–55]) . . . 447
Letters

ORLANDO FIGES
To the Editors . . . 453
Errata . . . 454
Contributors to This Issue . . . 455